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    were, at the time, deemed it “practically unsinkable.”(Delgado, n.d.) On April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to New York city, largest ship destined on her maiden voyage. The most luxurious and with latest technology of her time, cruise liner set sail for the United States with the pleased passengers all aboard. The largest vessel left with 2,240 passengers and crew and made her way towards her destination. (Titanic Universe, n.d.) This report will tell the truth about sinking of Titanic,…

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    The deep black water began to still as the magnificent ship disappeared under the waves. You could barely see the water through the blanket of dead bodies. This crisis could have been averted. But one selfish mind only wanted for his ship to make headlines for being the most spectacular ship ever made. This man did get his headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. Bruce Ismay was heavily at fault for the sinking of Titanic, but instead of trying to make things right and saving other, he saved…

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    shipwreck of all time. Enhanced by the fact that “TITANIC was the largest ship ever built at the time, 46,328 tons, 883 by 93 by 104 feet,9 decks…” (Rasor 48) the ship's sinking has lived on in the imaginations of people for generations after the disaster. On Sunday, April 14th, 1912 at 11:40 pm (Lord 3) RMS Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland carrying “a crew of about 892 hands all told, and about 1,316 passengers” according to the British Wreck Commissioner. Of those…

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    titanic. The author use different perceptions of the incident to give more depth to the feeling the passengers had when they hit something The author did this to make a broader explanation of how it felt when the titanic struck the iceberg. One of these perceptions were Frederick Fleet’s Fleet was a lookout for the titanic. They did not worry about passenger problems The lookouts were the eyes of the ship and this night Fleet had been warned to watch particularly for icebergs.Later Fleet saw…

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    experience very close in our minds.” (Captain Arthur H Rostron, Commander of the Carpathia). Taking place in the North Atlantic Ocean the sinking of the Titanic on April 14-15th, 1912 was a very terrifying day for Captain Edward J. Smith along with 2,200 passengers and crew. In the life boat, recalled Dorothy Gibson, “No one said a word. There was nothing to say and nothing we could do.”(Wilson, pp.34) The following are the series of events that happened in the sinking of the Titanic. At…

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    The passengers aboard the RMS Titanic were about 2,223 people who sailed on the maiden voyage. They sailed from Southampton to New York City. With many great deaths that occurred on this “unsinkable ship”, many authors used this event as a background for a great story, but were the details of the event accurately portrayed? When writing Dangerous Waters, it is clear that Gregory Mone did his research and showed the event accurately. The book Dangerous Waters by Gregory Mone was a heart…

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    Research Paper On Titanic

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    Come join us on a transatlantic cruise aboard the newly built ship, Titanic. This ship is an exact replica of the ship that sank in 1912, so you can experience the luxurious cruise and see why it was such a big deal to travel on. The new Titanic is officially unsinkable, unlike the original. Thanks to our friend, Climate Change, all of the icebergs have melted away. Climate Change has helped us increase the Earth’s temperature as much as 3°F to 12°F, allowing for over 15% of the arctic ice to…

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    Who Is To Blame Titanic

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    The Titanic was a cruise ship manufactured in the 1900s that was said to be "unsinkable" However it sank due to many design flaws and material failures. The cause of the titanics sinkage was due to the hull of the titanic colliding with the iceberg which ultimatley caused a brittle fracture within the hull steel. In order for a brittle fracture to occur there has to be three important factors a material or object must encounter,which are a high sulpher content,low temperature and a high impact…

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    fault? Here is why these people’s actions caused the sinking of the Titanic. The radio workers, almost as soon as the ship left for sea, were getting warnings of floating ice and Icebergs in their way further out in the Atlantic Ocean. But what would a little bit of floating ice do to the unsinkable ship after all? First, Harold Bride, who was glad to get a job on the new ship, was working with another partner at the radio room in one of the Titanic’s decks. It says on page 19 of chapter two…

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    third class passenger ticket on a brand new ship, RMS’ White Star Line Titanic! When boarding the Titanic, people were swarming all around, nearly 3000 of them. This was many more than the ship could carry and I’ll…

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